when you say you can't get the colors right, what do you mean?

this could just be your lens or cameras trait. Some lenses handle color differently from others.

you can just remedy this in post.

 

what i mean is that is that i guess the color of the photo is a little blue or it is a little yellow, idk it just doesnt look right.

here is an example

no pp bc i dont



how can i improve

was shooting with the 18-55 tho

 

post revival, but anything yet??

 

nynctc

switch your white balance to tungsten, or go into the camera settings and set a custom white balance with a white card.

you have too much yellow and red.

anyhow why are you against post work?

 

i dont pp because i dont have anyway of doing it. I can go on campus and use PS but i also dont know how to use it haha. since i am not taking classes the first half of the summer, most of my days will be learning PS tho so i can PP.

what is a white card?
edit found this: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Premiu.../dp/B000HDFH6W
what do they do?


thanks for your help RnB!

 

I wish some of the people on here that know how to do PS work would post up some basic tutorials and stuff like that to teach us lesser people how to use it.

 

you can start learning by yourself.. and do some readings as you explore it.. blah i need a pp software badly, leaning towards lightroom

 

 

 

I like the style of that picture Jon.

Sid if you want me too I can look around for my Photoshop and see if I can get it too ya so you can put it on your computer. Its not hard to learn at all, I take printing graphics classes so I get to mess around with all that kinda stuff haha.

Also just got my 55-250mm lens and tickets for round 2 hockey playoff tickets so now I can get even better shots! Will post em soon!

 

Drew, dont talk to me about Hockey, still bitter about the Rangers.

If you have the cds, that would be awesome!

Also, congrats on the new lens, im sure you'll take some sick photos.

 

poor man's rig...

 

a white card or 18% gray card helps properly set your custom white balance. What setting was your WB ( white balance) on when you took that picture? Def too warm on the light. I am guessing also that you needed to switch to tungstun or do a custom setting with the gray card.

 

PS can be self taught (just dont try to teach yourself with just messing with the program). There are tons of photoshop tutorials online that can help you out a lot.
just go to you tube for example. You should find tons of tutorials on everything there.

Ive been using photoshop well over a decade I think? Taking classes in college will help you tons btw, there are a lot of things that you will never know you can do from just messing with the software, its too complex to do any real work with it unless you've learned histograms, masking, levels, proper use of curves and have a thorough understanding of color theory.

and yea, make sure to work on a calibrated monitor if you plan on color/exposure correcting an image. That should be your first step into post work. I see a lot of photographers that take excellent photographs yet have little knowledge of PS, so they make the same rudimentary errors in processing that IMO detracts from the photo. When it comes to that the photo is best left unaltered.

some rookie mistakes you can tell are the overuse of surface blur as opposed to selective healing and luminance noise reduction or the use of brightness/contrast as opposed to curves and levels.

 

I agree with 100% about the fact that it can be self taught. Also there are many tutorials you can find online, I'll try to start looking for some and post them up.

 

Snow,nice photos. Post photos of the poor man's rig. ha ha

 

how do i use the white card. do i just put it in front of the camera wait for it to focus and then take the pic after i remove it haha?

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

GOOGLE it.

 

i know, but sometimes yall put it in like 4 year language which is sooo much more helpful.

 

There should be a manual white balance setting. You hold up the card and white balance it while looking at the card. I can't tell you exactly where it's located on your camera, but even my crappy point and shoot has custom white balance.